NCT03832244

The Role of Sub-mental Ultrasonography in Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Its Correlation With Subjective Scales

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 199 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bartin State Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that sub-mental ultrasonography measures are strongly correlated with the severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome and the related specific subjective scales.

Detailed description

Polysomnography (PSG) is the gold-standard diagnose tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). However, the availability of PSG is limited, particularly in developing and / or least developed countries. Sub-mental ultrasonography is stepped forward with its practical and cheap nature and its widespread use. The investigators aimed to perform sub-mental ultrasonography to the patients who underwent to PSG by a blind-to-the-PSG-results radiologist and analyse the correlation between ultrasound measures, Apnea-Hypopnea Index (measured by Polysomnography) and subjective OSA scales.

Conditions

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Ultrasound

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Sub-mental ultrasonography	Sub-mental ultrasonography including tongue-base thickness, retropalatal distance and the distance between lingual arteries

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-22
• Primary completion: 2020-04-20
• Completion: 2021-01-24
• First posted: 2019-02-06
• Last updated: 2021-01-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)